The Russellville Democrat., 1887-12-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various seurcea.
PERSONAL AND poLIrICAr.

GGaoONAA ANU ON the 30th Rev. Thomas Bonaoum was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln, Neh., at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, St. Louis, the venerable Archbishop Kenrick officiating as cQnsecrator.
 OFFICIAL returns from the State election in Massachusetts show that Governor Ames had plurality of r, 7,605, while that of the rest of the Republican State ticket averaged 240o0.
 ON the 3Oth the National central com mittee of the Prohibition party, in session at Chicago, decided to hold the National convention of the party in the first week in June, 1888.
 vIKGINIANs in Washington say that there is not the slightest doubt of the election of Hon. John s. Barbour as the next United States Senator from their term expires March 4, 1Ss9
 ON the 30th an excursion party of American railroad conductors were pre- sented to President Diaz in the City of Mexico, by Mir. T. B. Connery, charged d'affaires of the American legation. The President received the party. in cordial manner.
 THE French chambers have arranged a programme for the election of successor to M. Grevy.
 THE contest over the doorkeepership is really the only fight in Washington con nected with the House organization around which there is any doubt MT. Donelson's reply to the charges preferred against him by Mir. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, has furnished prolific topic ofdiscussion. Messrs. Hurt and Nichols are still in the race.
 ON the 30th information was received of the death, at Sheffield, England, of Will fam Jessop, the world-famous manufact- urer of steel
 CONGRESSMAN McSHANE. of Nebraska, who is many times millionaire, will keep up large establishment in Wash ington. He made his money in mining enterprises and sound real estate invest ments in Omaha and elsewhere, and has the reputation of being one of the solid men of the West.
 SURPRISE was expressed by District Attorney Elect Follows, of New York, at the decision of the Court of Appeals in the Sharpe case. With the five points of testimony which the Court of Appeals ruled out there was enough evidence left, he thought, to convict Sharpe.
 ON the 30th rumor was published in
  Patti would be unable to sing again, be- ing confined to her castle in Wales, suffer- ing from cancer of the stomach. It is known that she has long been suffering from dyspepsia, but those who are most likely to know discredit the rumor.
 IN the assignment of the desks to the Senators at Washington the one which for years served Mr. Roscoe Conkling has been given to Mfr. Nm. E. Chandler, and it is singular sort of a coincident that the desk which Mir. Blaine had, after hay ing been used by different Senators in different locations, has now fallen to Mir. Hale, his successor, and that it occupies the same position it did when Mir. Bl aine used it in the Senate.
 ON the 1st Jake Sharpe, the New York boodler, was released on 10000 bail.
 ON the 1st statue of the late President Garfield was unvailed at Cincinnati with appropriate ceremonies.
 CHRISTINA, Queen Regent of Spain, opened the Cortes on tho 1st.
 Representative Ford, of the Grand Rapids district of Michigan. is one of the younger members of the FiftIeth Con- gross and is quite handsome and able man.
 MosT REVEREND DANIEL McGETTIGAN, DID,, Archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland, was reported dying on the 1st.
 ON the 1st James E. Quinn, master workman of District Assembly, No. 40, K. of L., New York, was arrested upon charge of having assaulted reporter of the Tribune. Quinn pushed the reporter downstairs.
 ON the 1st President Grevy complicated French matters by withdrawing his resig- Ia c.1l xxa, h< 0I There was much excitement in Paris, but no serious disturbance.
 ON the 2d Representative breckenridge, of Arkansas, had an interview with Door, keeper Donelson in his office at the Capi- tol in Washington. MT. Donelson declined to state the nature of the interview, but from what could be learned the mee ting between the gentlemen was not of the most amicable character
 ON the 1st Mir. Sexton was unanimously elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, to succeed Mir. Sullivan. In speech thanking the corporat ion for the honor conferred upon him, he said that every day devel- oped new attacks upon the lives and lib critics of the people.
 A YOUNG attorney named J. l.. Eichel berger has been missing from his home in Cincinnati since Thanksgiving Day, with several crooked transactions developed. Among them is that of obtaining gold watch from his ntfianced bride and dia- mond ring from d jeweier of his acqaint- ance under false pretenses. A forged check also figures among his eccentrici- ties.
 DR. MACKENZIE, says the London Lan- cet, receives highly satisfactory advices concerning the condition of the German Crown Prince. In view of the fact that there is no actual microscopicat proof of the existence of cancor, the diminution of the swelling is not without certain degree of clinical importance.
 SEVERAL. of the Democratic Senators in Washington urge Mir. Carlisle 10 forego the Speakership and take tlfe chairma h. ship of the ways and means committee. Mr. Beck, Mir. German and others urge this. They say it is the wish of the Presi- dent.
 ON the 2d Grevy resigned the office of President of France. There were some disturbances on the streets, but the police and military queIled them.
 STARTERS victimizsd David M Ander- son. of Kansas, to the tune of SlS0 in the Kansas City Union depot on the I'd.
 ON the 2d Treasurer Ripley Ropes of tho Beecher monument fund committee re- ceived check for $a,93i.bo, from Henry Irving. as the result of benefit perform ance. With this sum and the amount realized from the eulogy of Dr. Parker the fund now aggregates $50, i29.36.
 ON the 2d Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dub lin was convicted and sentenced to two months Imprisonment for publishing pro ceedings of meetings of suppressed branches of the National League.
 MELBOURNE (Australia,) advices say that Beach, the oarsman, has resigned the championship and retired from aquatics, and that Hanlan has challenged Kemp.
 JAMES KEESAN, Teemer's backer, is out with a new proposition to Mir St. John, Gandaur's packer, looking to a great xvari dsa rhasnuinnShlu eealiiuD raea ha.